(The Black man's debut appearance dates from the Drama of the Three Wise Men (XIIth century), and his characterization remains a constant figure in the Spanish theater of the Golden Age. The evolution of his development as a theatrical image culminates with innovations in the theater of Lope de Vega…)

By the time of the discoveries of the Americas and the African's transfer from the Continent to Hispaniola (today's Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and subsequently to South America in the sixteenth century,